Best Protein Engineering Podcasts (2025)

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Episode: 74 - Keith Flaherty, President-Elect of AACR, on Public and Private Collabs, AI Optimism, and More 47:23

17d ago47:23

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June 10, 2025 | In this bonus episode of The Chain, Daniel Chen, MD, PhD, founder and CEO of Synthetic Design Lab, returns for the Science Commune segment and speaks with Keith Flaherty, MD, FAACR, professor of Medicine of Harvard Medical School and president-elect of AACR. They discuss Flaherty’s prolific career; how his background led him to purs…

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The Global Plastics Problem and Protein Engineering with Cesar Ramirez-Sarmiento 45:00

24d ago45:00

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The solution to plastic waste looks different depending on where you stand in the world. While Northern Hemisphere biotech approaches to plastic recycling focus on high-temperature enzymes designed to regenerate plastic monomers (which works when you produce lots of plastic), Cesar's lab has engineered a completely different solution. Starting with…

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AI Moves Off the Cloud, Google Breaks the Internet, Google-Wiz Deal Under Fire 38:46

1d ago38:46

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This week on Cloud Unplugged: AI goes local, Google Cloud breaks the internet, and the DOJ turns up the heat on Google’s $32B Wiz acquisition. We’re breaking down the biggest stories in cloud and AI: Context & Qualcomm are teaming up to move AI agents off the cloud and onto your device. What does this mean for the future of local-first AI? A major …

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Censored Landscapes: Art, Ag, and Animals 1:00:55

2d ago1:00:55

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Without almost no images of actual animals, Censored Landscapes, a photo book depicting the landscapes of modern animal agriculture, sends a powerful message about the realities of raising animals for food. Its creator and today's guest, artist and photographer Isabella La Rocca Gonzalez, discusses art, activism, and what she learned exploring the …

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Assert Your Power Over "The Way Its Supposed to Be" 18:53

3d ago18:53

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Letting go of unhealthy societal expectations is a process of understanding, challenging, and ultimately prioritizing your own values and well-being over external pressures to conform. Dr. Fred Clary, founder of Functional Analysis Chiropractic Technique and lifting/life coach/ gym-chalk covered philosopher talks about LIVING YOUR LIFE FOR YOU!!!!…

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How Amazon Trained Our Daraz CEO | Aanchal Kunwar | Ep. 269 2:08:32

2d ago2:08:32

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🎙️ Welcome to The Doers Nepal Podcast – Nepal’s Longest Running Business Podcast Every week, we bring you real conversations with the people shaping Nepal’s future through business, ideas, and bold action. This episode is a special one. We sat down with Aanchal Kunwar, the Managing Director of Daraz Nepal, and one of the few women leading a major t…

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Farmed Animal Sanctuaries 2025 57:25

8d ago57:25

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As Kathy Stevens, at the helm of Catskill Animal Sanctuary for over 25 years, moves to her next chapter, she gives up the inside scoop on what it's like to run a sanctuary, what the sanctuary movement means in the overall animal rights movement, and how we can save the most animals and move the most people veganward during these challenging times. …

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Building Self Confidence: Thrive just don't survive 19:19

9d ago19:19

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Self-confidence is a belief in one's own abilities and judgment, leading to a sense of trust in oneself and one's capabilities. It's about having a positive view of your strengths and weaknesses, setting realistic goals, and feeling capable of handling challenges. Building self-confidence involves practicing self-compassion, celebrating small victo…

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Redesigning Photosynthesis to Boost Agricultural Yield with Chris Eiben 56:22

10d ago56:22

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What if we could reinvent photosynthesis itself? GigaCrop founder and CEO Chris Eiben has a mission to dramatically increase crop yields by redesigning one of biology's most fundamental processes. With half of Earth's habitable land already dedicated to agriculture and growing demands for food, fiber, and materials, we face a critical choice: conve…

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This Man Is Turning Pokhara into a Global Adventure Hub | Ep. 268 2:05:23

9d ago2:05:23

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🎙️ Welcome to The Doers Nepal Podcast – Nepal's No.1 Business Podcast We explore the stories of leaders shaping the future across diverse industries. In this episode: Singapore, million-dollar tech projects, and mountain biking in Nepal comes under one name, our guest Sunil Chandra Sharma. He’s not just a tech veteran, but the co-founder of the wor…

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UK’s £1B AI Push, China’s 631GB Data Leak, and Robotic Exoskeletons 34:43

13d ago34:43

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This week, we delve into the UK government’s substantial investment in AI infrastructure and its implications for cloud sovereignty; Is it related to the trump administration, the economy or the AI arms race? We discuss China’s unprecedented 631 GB personal data leak and whether it is a honeytrap or negligence. Plus, Wandercraft’s latest advancemen…

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The Omnivore's Deception 59:47

14d ago59:47

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Regenerative agriculture. Farm to table. Humane meat. These are buzzwords of a movement led by Michael Pollan, Joel Salatin, and others who believe that animal foods are fine if they come from the "right" farms. Today's guest, Professor John Sanbonmatsu, excoriates their argument in his new book The Omnivore's Deception, making an on-target and hea…

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You Put WHAT in my WHAT!... Gross... Covid Spike Proteins found in multiple organ systems! 26:12

16d ago26:12

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The pathological Spike Proteins of Covid 19 have been found in organs and tissues throughout our body, just not limited to the respiratory system This may explain all the side effects and deaths from the wild type infection and the vaccine. Dr. Fred Clary, founder of Functional Analysis Chiropractic Technique and lifting/life coach/ gym-chalk cover…

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How to Attract Top Talents in Nepal (And Keep Them) | Ep. 267 1:32:47

16d ago1:32:47

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🎙️ Welcome to The Doers Nepal Podcast – Nepal's No.1 Business Podcast We explore the stories of leaders shaping the future across diverse industries. In this episode: We're breaking down the wall between job seekers and employers. Our guest Shailendra Raj Giri is the Managing Director of MeroJob, Nepal's largest and most trusted job portal. He pull…

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Episode: 73 - PANEL DISCUSSION: Near-Term Challenges for AI/ML in Biotherapeutic R&D 1:01:21

18d ago1:01:21

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June 10, 2025 | This episode of The Chain features a panel discussion from May’s PEGS Boston. Moderated by Peter Tessier, Albert M. Mattocks professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, the panelists include Sarel Fleishman, professor of Biomolecular Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science; Kadi…

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COVID plus 5 : Spikes and Life. What did we learn? 32:10

23d ago32:10

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It's been 5 years, what have we learned. Yes, research suggests that the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the virus that causes COVID-19, can trigger inflammation. Studies have shown that the spike protein From the wild type virus OR THE VACCINE can act as a trigger for pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, leading to an elevated inflamm…

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Rip Esselstyn, from Engine 2 to Plant-Based Superstar 48:41

23d ago48:41

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World-class triathlete, #1 NYT bestselling author, host of the Plant-Strong Podcast, and Plantstrong Foods CEO Rip Esselstyn shares some "inner Rip" plus health hacks for eating whole plants foods and enjoying life to the max. Website/company: https://www.plantstrong.com Retreats: https://www.liveplantstrong.com/retreat (the next one is in North Ca…

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From AI Labs to Warzones: Proteins, Drones & Dog Tech 42:15

23d ago42:15

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In this episode, Jon and Lewis cover four wildly different stories, from Warfare to the impact of Trump conspiracies on Datacentres. First up, Microsoft is investing $400 million to turn Switzerland into the next cloud capital. Is it for neutrality, Trump instability syndrome or just demand? Then, we meet a glow-in-the-dark protein made by an AI ca…

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This guy will bring $300 billion fund to Nepal | Gunjan Ghimire | Ep. 266 1:47:08

25d ago1:47:08

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🎙️ Welcome to The Doers Nepal Podcast – Nepal's No.1 Business Podcast We explore the stories of leaders shaping the future across diverse industries. In this episode: We dive deep into climate action – a trillion-dollar economy in the making. You’ll learn how simply being Nepali gives you access to a $300 billion annual climate fund under the Paris…

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Bio BITES 42: Bites, Blood Meals, and Behavioral Switches: Decoding Mosquito Behavior with Dr. Duvall 43:44

27d ago43:44

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Even if mosquitoes make your skin crawl—or you think of them as nothing more than the flying, biting pests we all can’t stand—you'll be surprised by how fascinating they really are. In this episode of Bio Bytes, Dr. Laura Duvall, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, joins Celine to explore the surprising science behind…

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Food Whisperer Ellen Kanner and Miami Vegan 40:57

1M ago40:57

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You know Ellen Kanner for her Substack, Broccoli Rising, her years as HuffPo's Meatless Monday columnist, and as the "soulful vegan" whose previous book was Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith & What to Eat for Dinner. She's back in author mode with Miami Vegan: Plant-Based Recipes from the Tropics to Your Table. Website: https://www.soulfulvegan…

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Design Meets AI: OpenAI and Jony Ives, VEO AI film creation, and how to predict the weather with M.S 39:50

1M ago39:50

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This week, we dive into OpenAI’s $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive’s ‘io’ and what it means for the future of AI-native devices. We explore Google’s VEO 3 and the deepfake dilemmas it raises, along with Microsoft’s Aurora AI and its ability to predict the weather. Plus, Google’s new try-on AI lets you see how clothes fit without leaving your house, and…

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This guy made $250K from Faceless YouTube Channel | Soham Amatya | Ep. 265 1:37:43

1M ago1:37:43

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🎙️ Welcome to The Doers Nepal Podcast – Nepal's No.1 Business Podcast We explore the stories of leaders shaping the future across diverse industries. In this episode: We talk about faceless content creation, creating videos or posts without showing your face, using voice overs, text, animations, or visuals instead. It’s a great way to share value o…

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Bio Bytes 41: From Bedside to Breakthrough: Dr. Rosenblatt on Innovation and Impact in Anesthesiology 40:42

1M ago40:42

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In this episode of Bio Bytes and our ongoing Bench to Bedside series, we learn about Dr. Meg Rosenblatt, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Morningside and West and Professor of Anesthesiology. She is recognized as the first person to deliver 20% intralipid therapy to treat local anesthetic systemic toxicity in a patient. We e…

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Engineering the P450 Workhorse to Secure Supply Chains and Save Endangered Trees with Maria Astolfi 39:19

1M ago39:19

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What if we could secure critical supply chains through bioengineering? What if the vaccines protecting millions worldwide didn't require harvesting 10,000 trees annually from Chilean mountains? Maria Astolfi is tackling this exact challenge through groundbreaking work with P450 enzymes. Growing up surrounded by biodiversity shaped Maria's unique pe…

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Yoga for Osteoporosis 49:43

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Guest Loren Fishman, MD, is a yogi who studied under B.K.S. Iyengar in India and long practicing doctor of physical medicine in New York City. He is also the undisputed expert on using yoga to prevent and reverse osteopenia and osteoporosis, the subject of his newly revised and updated book, Yoga for Osteoporosis. Website: https://www.manhattanphys…

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AI Infrastructure Boom: CoreWeave's IPO, AWS Transform, and Quantum Computings Next Leap 44:18

1M ago44:18

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In this episode, we dissect industry-shaping stories, debating CoreWeave's $35 billion IPO, AWS Transform: AI for legacy app modernisation, and the exciting intersection of quantum computing and AI and how much Nvidia is investing in the Market - are they becoming the new Microsoft, Apple or Google? Whether you're deep in tech, cloud services, AI i…

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From College Teacher to Global AI Expert | Ep. 264 1:39:16

1M ago1:39:16

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🎙️ Welcome to The Doers Nepal Podcast, Nepal's No.1 Business Podcast We explore the stories of leaders shaping the future across diverse industries. In this episode, We had the privilege of sitting down with Saurav Poudel, Vice President and Lead Infrastructure Engineer (AI/ML Platform) at Wells Fargo. With deep expertise in big data engineering, d…

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Game-Changing Peta Lawsuit for Animals in Labs 39:22

1M ago39:22

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Game-Changing Peta Lawsuit for Animals in Labs The First Amendment promises not only freedom of speech but freedom to hear speech. In this landmark suit against the NIH and NIMH, today's guest, Jeff Kerr, and other Peta attorneys are demanding that Americans be allowed to hear the protestations of macaque monkeys involved in 40 years of painful, ir…

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Saudi’s AI Empire, Nvidia’s Robot Plans, and talking Dolphins 43:53

1M ago43:53

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In this, almost, but never quite, 30-minute episode, we investigate how Saudi Arabia is set to become the world’s next AI hub. Unravelling the state-backed initiative, HUMAIN, and the billions being channelled into local data-centre capacity with Nvidia and AWS. We also uncover Nvidia’s newly open-sourced Isaac GR00T N1 foundation model, trained on…

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Episode: 72 - Pamela Barney on HR Lessons to Meet the Needs of Biotech 35:23

2M ago35:23

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In this episode of The Chain, host Tariq Ghayur, PhD, Tariq Ghayur Consulting, LLC, talks with Pamela Barney, former associate director of HR, AbbVie, about her career within biotech/pharma organizations and some key lessons learned, such as taking advantage of your contacts and network, managing diverse workforces, and HR’s role in creating an eng…

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Solving for the P in NPK Fertilization Using Enzymes with Benjamin Scott 40:30

2M ago40:30

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The global food system has a phosphorus problem that few people talk about. Unlike nitrogen, which cycles naturally through our atmosphere, phosphorus is mined from finite deposits and has no natural cycle. A massive 100-kilometer conveyor belt—visible from space—transports phosphate-rich rock from the Sahara Desert to ships waiting to distribute t…

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Not Protein Again! 41:14

2M ago41:14

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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's Xavier Toledo, registered dietitian, specializing in the intersection of nutrition and communications, tackles the current social media trend of bashing plant-based eaters on the protein question. Website: https://pcrm.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dietitianxavier/…

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Big Retail Cyber Attack: Amazon’s AI Offensive & the Google AI Opt‑Out Illusion 33:16

2M ago33:16

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In this 30‑minute episode, Jon and Lewis unpick the coordinated ransomware wave that struck Britain’s high‑street giants. They trace the attack chain that emptied Co‑op shelves, froze M&S online orders and attempted, but failed, to extort Harrods. Lewis takes a look at Amazon’s latest generative‑AI arsenal: Amazon Q’s new developer‑first agents, th…

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Sherpa Income Revealed | Nepali vs Foreigner Mt. Everest Package | Ep. 263 1:25:48

2M ago1:25:48

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🎙️ Welcome to The Doers Nepal Podcast, Nepal's No.1 Business Podcast We explore the stories of leaders shaping the future across diverse industries. In this episode, We are joined by Dawa Finjhok Sherpa, a world record holder who climbed Mt. Everest three times in just eight days, and Rajan Krishna Shrestha, Managing Director of Hamasteel and a mou…

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Chef Bai on Breaking Up With Dairy 37:05

2M ago37:05

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In this episode: the dope on dairy, some fab recipe guidance on making cheeses, milks, creams, yogurts, even cottage cheese and crème brûlée, and the reason why we're seeing so much anti-vegan venom on social media with Bailey Ruskus (Chef Bai). She's Cordon Bleu-trained but these recipes are for those of us who aren't. Now a brilliant vegan influe…

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Europe in the Dark: Cyber-attack Suspicions, Meta’s New AI, Qwen 3 & Earths rotation changes 37:38

2M ago37:38

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In this 30-minute episode, Jon and Lewis delve into the root causes of Europe’s recent Spain, France and Portugal blackouts, scrutinising grid-failure reports and probing whether a sophisticated cyber-attack might have been to blame. They then analyse Meta’s newly unveiled AI alongside the arrival of Qwen 3 and Google's AgentSpace update, and how J…

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The Soy Opportunity Nepal’s Ignoring | 42% Protein, $1B Market | Roundtable Ep 2 1:39:50

2M ago1:39:50

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Welcome to The Doers Nepal Roundtable Podcast, Nepal's No.1 Business Podcast! 🚀 This episode brings together pioneering entrepreneurs, nutrition advocates, and agri-food leaders with a live audience to discuss the potential of soy to fuel Nepal's health, economy, and sustainable future. 🌱 Meet Our Esteemed Guests: 🔹 Deeba Giannoulis: Regional Head …

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Bio Bytes 40: Engineering Novel Immune Circuits with Dr. Livnat Jerby 39:56

2M ago39:56

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Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Livnat Jerby, an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford University, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, and Paul Allen Distinguished Investigator. In this episode, Dr. Jerby shares how her lab is decoding and engineering immune circuits to create next-generation cell therapies, drawing on high-t…

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Google AI Agentspace Workflows, Oracle Cloud Breach and OpenAI’s New Features 35:39

2M ago35:39

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In this fact-busting 30-minute episode, Jon and Lewis explore Google’s AI AgentSpace technology and how it could let business teams run complete workflows without ever leaving the agent environment. They then test the marketing claims behind Openai’s latest model features, before dissecting Oracle’s cloud data breach. Finally, they map out the pote…

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Lifelong Vegan on Ex-Vegans & the State of the Movement Now 1:06:24

2M ago1:06:24

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TEDx speaker and fulltime vegan advcate Sarina Farb grew up vegan in Kansas and is now carrying the message far and wide with insightful presentations on topics including "The Ex-Vegan Phenomenon," on which she has some fascinating ideas. Sarina is also at the helm of a unique festival slated for Sept. 18-22 in, yes, Kansas: Thrive Alive Vegan Fest…

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